Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1819: The Superhero

Ning walked over to the other interrogation room where the woman was being interrogated. He saw the woman and realized just how much tanned her skin had gotten since the days when her photo was taken.

The chances of it being her were even lower than they always had been.

He heard Larissa ask a few different questions and then they were out.

”Did the alibi check out?” Ning asked her.

”Yes,” she said with a sigh. ”Her husband corroborates that she has been with him the entire night. And during the morning, she started her shift as a waitress early enough that she would have had no time to go attack our victim in the hospital.”

Ning nodded. ”You have any other ideas?” he asked.

”Of course not,” Larissa snapped. ”I’m struggling, okay? No need to rub it in.”

”I wasn’t rubbing it in. Merely asking,” Ning said.

”Okay, I don’t. Now what?” she asked.

”Now, time for the hail mary.”

Larissa narrowed her eyes. ”What does that mean?” she asked.

Ning smiled. ”What protocols would we have to follow if we were to go capture a superhero?”

Half an hour later, Ning left the station with Larissa and Jack, as they made their way to the northeastern block of the city.

They arrived outside of a large apartment building that was known to house the superhero they were there for. Ning and Larissa got off first, walking into the building while Jack circled around the building, waiting just in case the hero tried to leave from the other side.

”Are you absolutely sure?” she asked.

”Wouldn’t be a hail mary if I was absolutely sure, would it?” he asked.

They found their way to the elevator and made their way up to the 12th floor, to room number 125. They rang the bell.

They waited for some time for someone to respond and pressed the bell again, but no one came out. They could hear the doorbell ring on the other side too, but with no response, they didn’t know what to do.

”Sounds like nobody is home,” she said.

”Hmm, maybe they’re still out working,” Ning said. ”We have to go—”

Ning paused for a second as he turned toward the elevator and saw a man walk out. Larissa turned around at the same time and they saw his face.

The man froze for a moment, like a deer caught in headlights. Before he could leave, Ning called out for him.

”Waveshot, we were looking for you,” he shouted.

The man, the hero — Waveshot — stared at Ning and Larissa.

”Who... who are you? And what are you doing on my doorstep?” he asked.

Larissa pulled out her badge. ”I am Detective Larissa, and this is Detective Valen. We’re here to ask you about an incident that happened in an apartment in the northwest today. We were hoping you would answer a few questions of ours.”

”Northwest? What does that have to do with me? That’s half the city away,” the hero said.

Ning stared at the hero carefully. He was a good-looking human man, with a decent height and unblemished skin. His somewhat long hair was of the perfect length to be combed stylishly, and he did.

He could see why there were so many female fans of this hero.

”Then surely you can answer these questions without any worries, right?” Larissa asked.

The man thought for a bit and then finally nodded.

Larissa began her questioning by asking where he was and where he had been. The man answered what sounded like the truth. He had been sleeping the whole night and had then woken up in the morning and gone to do his job, which was saving the city from people who wanted to do bad.

He was technically part of the city’s defense force and was paid for by the city as well. That was part of the reason why his information was available for Larissa and the rest to get.

”I heard that most heroes have their region within the city that they stick to. Is that true?” Ning asked. ”They are assigned a block or two and they usually stick to those blocks.”

”Depends on your power. The stronger heroes get multiple blocks to save,” he said.

”Then you must be quite strong despite being only 22nd in ranking,” Ning said. ”After all, you were fighting a criminal all the way to the northwest.”

The hero frowned. ”I don’t go looking for a fight there,” the man said. ”Those villains run away and I have to follow. I am allowed to do that.”

”I see,” Ning said. ”Then it must be a coincidence that your chase led you directly to the backstreets of our current victim. It must also be a coincidence that the cameras in those areas, and just those areas, were destroyed during the attack.”

Waveshot frowned. ”What are you trying to say?” he demanded.

Larissa turned toward Ning too. She wasn’t entirely sure what they were doing here, except that Ning had some minor proof. In a way, she was even hoping he would be completely wrong here so that she could kick him off the upcoming investigations and go back to doing everything by herself.

”I think I’m being perfectly clear, aren’t I?” Ning said. ”I think you were the one who attacked our victim, an old ghoul. You destroyed those cameras, knowing you would need to go into the old man’s apartment from that side. And in the dead of night, you attacked him.”

The hero began to grow angry. ”Such baseless allegations. I have attacked no one,” he shouted.

”Did you realize there was a hidden camera in the hospital that you didn’t get to destroy? One that caught all of your actions?” Ning asked. ”It caught your face clearly.”

The hero grew pale. ”No... no, there wasn’t.”

Ning smiled. ”You’re right, I lied,” he said. ”But then, how would you know that? Unless...”

Larissa turned immediately, bringing out her handcuffs. ”Sir Waveshot, you are under arrest on suspicion of the attempted murder of Grimhide Chak.”